Comment by onlyrealcuzzo
4 months ago
How is this different from >50% of farm land in the US growing corn for ethanol or corn or soy for export?
4 months ago
How is this different from >50% of farm land in the US growing corn for ethanol or corn or soy for export?
If your next door neighbor worked on the production line at a tire factory, how much would it change your social relationship with him if half of those tires were being exported, or sold to manufacturers of ICE cars?
Or - maybe you're an introvert, or live in a place where it's normal to have no social relationships with your neighbors. If so, try talking to somebody who has lived in a small farming community. It is a very, very different world.
This sounds very specific to your experience and viewpoint developed via whatever small farming community you have experience of.
I've had six decades around rural communities, mostly in Australia, often in far flung parts of the world, there are few here that feel solar farms are dystopian giga-scale machines, mostly they think of them as dual use for pasture and additional guaranteed farm income.
Raised panels make the moisture retention better, increase the nutritional value of the ground cover and makes for better wool - all positives.
Point. I was mostly speaking to the parts of America which are hostile to solar farms.
OTOH, it sounds like your experience is with solar/farming dual-use. Vs. America seems inclined to a "buy the land, kick off the farmers, put up the panels, and post the No Humans Allowed signs" monoculture model. Which can be all to easy to scale up & do, from a Wall Street point of view.
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